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===British Dominion=== | ===British Dominion=== | ||
Original records of East Florida during the British period are held at the PRO in Kew, Surrey, England. Copies of the records are at the P.K. Yonge Library at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. These records include: | |||
*East Florida Claims Commission, 1763-1789 (film 1020205 ff./T 77). | |||
*Loyalist birth, marriage, and death records, 1755-1908 (film 0857997 ff/WO 42). | |||
*Land grants (CO 5), American Loyalist Claims, series II (AO 13). | |||
*Documents relating to refugees, 1780-1856 (T 50). | |||
*List and Index Society. ''List of the Records of the Treasury, Paymaster, General's Office, the Exchequer and Audit Department, and the Board of Trade to 1837'', Vol. 46, (1921, reprint, New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1963). This indexes claiments in the East Florida Claims Commission (T 77) | |||
Records for West Florida during the British period are available at the following locations: | |||
- Lelia Abercrombie Historical Library in Pensacola, Florida | |||
- Pace Library, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida. | |||
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC (Oliver Pollock Papers). | |||
- Mississippi State Archives (copies of PRO records). | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/287711?availability=Family%20History%20Library "A State of All Grants of Land Which Have Passed the Great Seal of the province of West Florida on Family Right and Purchase since the Arrival: Of His Ecvellency Governor Chester at Pensacola on the 10th Day of August, 1770 to the 4th Day of November, 1773."] ''Mississippi Provincial Archives, 1763-1783, English Dominion 6'' (Jackson: Department of Archives and History, film 0899983): 83-9. | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/658512?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''English Land Grants in West Florida: A Register for the States of Alabama, Mississippi, and Parts of Florida and Louisiana, 1766-1776''] by Winston De Ville, (Ville Platte, LA: The Author, 1986). | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/134454?availability=Family%20History%20Library ''Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785: The Most Important Documents Pertaining Thereto''] by Wilbur Henry Siebert, 2 Vols., (1929, reprint, Boston: Grogg Press, 1972). | |||
==Additional Reading== | ==Additional Reading== | ||